External USB hard drive question

[debian]

Hi, all.

I've recently installed Sarge on an old Pentium II machine via  
CD/Network as a test box to evaluate the system and am extremely  
impressed. I installed the Desktop environment and am using KDE 3.3 as  
my desktop.

I've painlessly got it entered onto my LAN (sharing with OS X), got  
CUPS and VNC running and now need to explore the backup possibilities.  
I'll probably start with  rsync as I'll be backing up to an external  
USB hard drive. The question I have is the drive, at the moment, is  
formatted HFS+. The only option I have for formatting it before I  
connect to Sarge is UFS.

Could anybody offer any advice on the best route to get the drive  
mounted ext3 on Sarge? Or, if indeed, I could just use the back-up  
drive formatted UFS?

Apologies if this is a no-brainer but after an extensive Google search  
and consulting several manuals, I'm still not clear as to the best  
course of action.

Cheers,

Phil.


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